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Young Love: The Challenges and Benefits of Being a Young Couple

When you’re young and in love, it can feel like the entire world is on your side. Everyone you know is rooting for you to succeed and making sure you are well aware of just how lucky you are to have found love at such a young age. However, this also comes with some challenges that might not be expected. You get married sooner than anyone would expect, so it can be hard to keep up appearances when everyone knows exactly where both of you live. You might not have much money because your first jobs don’t pay very well and living together puts a strain on finances even more than your own personal funds ever did before. You might not have many friends who actually understand what it’s like to date someone as young as yourself, so social outings become harder to plan and attend. Perhaps most challenging of all; You find out very quickly what kind of person this other person really is once the honeymoon phase has passed...